Hello, I hope this is the right forum. I'm new and not too sure.
Anyway. My family are moving house soon and should be settled around mid september - early october. One of the reasons (albeit pretty far down the list) is so that we can buy a puppy. Now, my parents are dead set on getting a border terrier, but we already own 2 chinchillas and they will be moving with us too. I'm concerned that a border terrier will try to go for our chinchillas, because well, it's a terrier and that's what they were bred to do. From what I've read I also understand that border puppies can be hard to train, so I'm not so sure we could train the puppy to say, not go upstairs where the chinchillas will be (They're going to have thier own room in the new house to get them out in of a night). My mum thinks we can just shut the door on the chinchillas room, but I don't know if that will actually happen. The house we will be moving to will have a large garden, so space is not a problem. My father also plans to take the dog to work with him in a florists they've just purchased, so the dog will need to be sociable with other people.
I guess what I'm asking is whether or not a border terrier would be right for us, and if not, what breed would you reccomend for us?
Any help is really appreciated here, Thanks.